Epic riffs by Van Halen, Black Sabbath, and Ozzy Osbourne are sure to inspire the "devil horns," the universal symbol of ...

The riff. It's everything to metal. You can strip away pretty much any other element that has come to define the genre over the years - haunting atmospherics, scorching wails and guttural screams, ...

Heavy metal has a rich history, filled to the brim with quality albums that have been delighting the headbanging masses of Planet Earth for decades. These are heavy metal albums that are ...

For heavy metal newcomers, or non-metal listeners, here are three muscular anthems from the 1970s everyone should know.

Metallica's Kirk Hammett named one particular guitar riff that he believes "shifted heavy metal." "The first three Black Sabbath albums are like gospel. Everyone kind of universally agrees. They ...

Skeletizer are looking to raise some goddamn Cain here. Even with some trench-digging breakdowns, this record is a stampede ...

For a guy whose riffs have influenced generations of musicians and helped spawn several genres, namely grunge and sludge metal, King Buzzo aka Buzz Osborne doesn’t spend too much time thinking about ...

Metallica photo session in a dressing in Berlin, 1992. Within the heavy metal scene Metallica has long held a unique standing amongst fans and critics. No other band in the genre has achieved a highly ...

Noise rock supergroup Human Impact (featuring members of Unsane, Cop Shoot Cop, and Daughters) are dropping their sophomore effort, Gone Dark, on October 4th. This week they served up the single ...

For more than 40 years, American doom metal pioneers Pentagram have carved their name into the bedrock of doom metal. Though operating in a sort of on again, off again manner over the years, their ...

Inspired by horror movies and dark themes, legendary bands created a theatrically dark genre, Metal. Linda Diaz and Joey Hays chat with members of the legendary bands Gwar and Impaler to uncover how ...

Kawaii Metal: A music genre combining cute J-pop elements with heavy metal instrumentation. Fox God (Kitsune-sama): The mystical entity in BABYMETAL's mythology who guides their destiny. The One: What ...